They call for an early presidential election, which Maduro would likely lose as his popularity has sunk along with an economy blighted by triple-digit inflation and food shortages.

Financial sanctions handed down by the Trump administration on Friday that will prevent the financing of debt or dividend payments for Venezuela's government and state oil company was praised by U.S. Sen.

-Julie Wernau and Carolyn Cui contributed to this article. The fact that they didn't not only shocked the moral sentiments of many, but also revealed a fundamental defect in sovereign debt markets' institutional architecture.

To allow you to personalize the Mondaq websites you are visiting. "This makes it far harder to justify coming out against the government".

Venezuela, for its part, has lambasted the sanctions as "the worst aggression towards Venezuela in the last 200 years" and has vowed to respond in the coming days. The Order adds to a growing list of restrictions that apply to Venezuela, which is already subject to an arms embargo and licensing requirements on exports and reexports of specific categories of goods, software, and technology to military end-users or for military end-uses in Venezuela.

Speaking at a news conference Delcy Rodriguez accused them of calling for the restrictions and of encouraging US military action against Venezuela.

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Venezuela accuses opposition for US sanctions

There were other efforts, too.

In order to receive Mondaq News Alerts, users have to complete a separate registration form. But for regime-change extremists like Marco Rubio, whom Trump seems to be listening to on Venezuela, peace is bad news, especially for the media strategy of "if it bleeds, it leads". The best way to do that is to start the discussion.

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The political tension rose after Caracas announced plans to establish the Constituent Assembly to take over the opposition-controlled parliament and rewrite the constitution.

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It added the assembly and upcoming state elections demonstrated the health of local democracy. What should the methodology be? Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the functionality of the site. "We express our solidarity with the Americans affected by the hurricane", he said, according to Reuters. How can the rater be protected from political pressure? But as any economist knows, this is clearly false.

"I don't even look at my paycheck anymore because it just gets me depressed", said Norma Pena, a bank teller who earns a little more than Venezuela's minimum wage of around just $15 a month.

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